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LUCAS. EDEL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE WESTERN STOVE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COOKING-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letterslatent No. 539,382, dated May ll, 1895.

Application filed May 11, 1893. Renewed February 14, 1895. Serial NOn N model-l To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUCAS EDEL, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Cooking-Stoves, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement relates partly to the construction of the long center, and its support, and partly to the means for ventilating the oven, substantially as is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, making part of thisspeciflcation, in which Figure 1 is a vertical central longitudinal section of a cooking-stove having the improvement; Fig. 2, a plan of the stove, its covers being removed; Fig. 3, avertical transverse section on the line 3 3'ofFig. 2, looking toward the fireplace; Fig. 4, a view similar to that of Fig. 3, omitting the adjoining portions of the stove-top and showing the parts of the long center separated from each other; and Fig. 5, a plan of the parts as exhibited in Fig. 4.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The stove is of the ordinary construction saving as the same is modified or supplemented by the improvement under consideration. for an understanding of the improvement is exhibited.

A represents the fire-place; B, the oven; 0, the stove-top, and D the flue leading from the fire-place above the oven.

E represents the long center. It has been customary to construct this part of a stove in one piece, or if made in separate pieces they have been united to form a part which extends across the opening in the stove top and capable of being handled as a single piece. Such a construction is not wholly satisfactory in that its usefulness is frequently terminated if any portion of the center becomes injured, and if it becomes warped at any point the change in form is liable to so aflect the piece throughout its length that it no longer fits properly in its seat in the stove top. I overcome the difficulty referred to by making the center in parts, namely the central part, e, and two end parts e and 6 which Only so much thereof as is needed when joined form a continuous center reaching across the opening, 0, in the stove-top, but which are detachable from each other, and more or less free to work endwise on each other. These end parts are preferably similar, and are preferably shaped to be interchangeable. The central part may be, and in the present instance is, made in one piece with the leg, F, which constitutes the central support of the center. The part e is preferably extended laterally to be somewhat wider than the leg, and at its ends, e a, it is shaped, sub stantially as shown, to support the adjoining parts, 6 6 and so that the three parts jointly form a level surface. The center, as a whole, has the usual shape for receiving and supporting the short-centers G, G, and lids H, H (these parts are indicated in broken lines), in the customary manner. The short centers, so far as the long center is concerned are upheld .more especially by the central part e, and the lids by the end-parts e and e Theleg, F, so far as furnishing a support for a composite long center such as described is concerned, may be a solid piece, as is customary; but to render the long center a more durable construction, especially when its part c is integral with the leg and, also to provide for ventilating the oven, I make the leg in the form of a flue through which air can be passed and the leg thereby be prevented from becoming as highly heated as it otherwise would be in the use of the stove. The air referred to may be taken from any suitable source, and it may be discharged from the flue in any suitable direction, so long as the air is sufficientlycool, and so long as the operation of the stoveis not substantially interfered with. To this end, and also to promote an additional aim of the improvement, namely, the ventilation of the oven, I connect the flue f within the leg F, with the interior of the oven by means of an openingb in the roof b of the oven, with the air above the stove by means of an inlet e in the top 5 of the long center, and with the fire place flue D by means of an outletf'. The air then, when the stove is under way, is drawn through the inlet 6 downward into the flue f, and up ward into the flue f through the inlet b, and

it is discharged into the fire place flue D through the outlet f, all as is substantially indicated by the arrows in the drawings.

It is unnecessary to provide special inlets for admitting air into the oven, as a sufiicient amount usually enters the oven at the joints between the oven doors. and the sides,

of the stove; but if desired additional inlets may be employed.

I prefer not to be restricted to any special form of leg F so long as it is adapted to carry out the described objects of the impr0vement. A desirable mode, in practice, of forming the leg and the center-part eis shown, the leg and center'part being in a single piece,

saving a top-piece, f which is detachable from the remaining portion of the construction, and which can be secured in position so 1 as to complete the construction by means of LUCAS EDEL. Witnesses:

O. D. MOODY,

A. BONVILLE.

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